si's 2018 challenge

Aiming for a modest target of five non-fiction books before December 31st 2018.
My reading tends to be dominated by fiction, so I'm hoping this challenge will encourage me to branch out a little.
I don't have any particular titles in mind, except for a few unread books around the house.

#1 Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Story of three children, including author Doris Pilkington's mother, who in 1931 made an epic trek across Western Australia to return home after being removed from their families.
The children of white settlers and Aboriginal Women were sent to settlements to be educated, many never saw their families again.
If not told in the most fluid of styles it is still a remarkable story of a troubling part of Australian/British history. It was filmed as Rabbit-Proof fence by Phillip Noyce.

#2 Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

Part memoir, part chronicle of the football games Hornby watched, missed and/or obsessed over between September 1969 and January 1992; mostly involving Arsenal.
It feel like a bygone era now - before the premier league, before the champions league, before Sky & billionaire foreign owners. But football fans today will still recognize the feeling and emotions of following a team.

#3 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Lots of straight-forward information about the history and evolution of punctuation, told in an easy to follow, humourous style.

#4 Longitude by Dava Sobel

Pitched as 'Popular Science' this is a concise history of the attempts to solve the problem of measuring Longitude at sea; which was costing many lives and ships every year.

#5 Born in the 60s by Tim Glynne-Jones

Britain in the 1960s told through b/w photos. Social history told in broad strokes.

#6 Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson

Part travel, but mostly cricket, book by comedy writer and producer Thompson, who sadly died shortly after completing this account of his cricket team's adventures.